10 free Windows apps that improved my productivity (and I'd easily pay money for)

LibreOffice is free to download and install for Windows.
PC World

I finally started using Windows Task View, 10 years later. It’s been a revelation

It only took about ten years, but I’ve finally made Windows Task View part of my everyday workflow. Task View arrived with Windows 10 in 2015, providing an alternative to cramming all of your open ...

How to use Task Manager in Windows

Task Manager can help efficiently manage computer processes and increase performance. Efficiency Mode optimizes ...
How-To Geek on MSN

This open-source tool fixed Windows 11's ugly taskbar

Windhawk is a free and open-source utility that allows you to customize most aspects of the Windows user interface, including ...
Neowin

Explorer Patcher update adds new taskbar features, ARM64 and Windows 11 24H2 support

Explorer Patcher, a popular UI-tweaking app for Windows 11, received a new pre-release update. It delivers two important changes: a new Windows 10 taskbar implementation with new features and ARM64 ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft: New Windows scheduled task will launch Office apps faster

In May, Microsoft plans to roll out a new Windows scheduled task that launches automatically to help Microsoft Office apps load faster. The company says the "Startup Boost" task will launch in the ...
TechSpot

How to enable Windows 11's hidden 'End Task' feature to quickly kill crashed apps

The big picture: Windows 11 offers a ton of hidden features that are still unknown to the vast majority of users. One such function is a handy 'End Task' option that can be accessed by right-clicking ...